I don’t know what she eats or weighs, but if she routinely consumes the dishes described in her recipes then I guess I’m not surprised.
Here are her Fried Butter Balls, for example. And her Fried Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches.
Mmmm, scrumptious!
I am guessing Paula’s latest culinary masterpiece will be Deep Fried Grease-Battered Grease Balls. I am salivating at just the thought of devouring a bucket full. They are to die for!
I think the glee (and I don’t mean the OP) over her condition is pretty distasteful.
How funny! Serves her right for cooking with all that butter! Ha Ha!
Maybe it’s just because she reminds me of my grandmother. Anyway, I hope she does what is necessary to control it. If she adds a couple healthy menu items to her next cookbook, all the better.
Yeah, with the modern cooking show’s decided bent toward healthy, light items, I’m glad there’s at least one out there that revels in full-fat, full-sugar straight up deliciousness.
Best to Paula Deen.
I know obesity and sugar/carbohydrates are linked to diabetes, but I didn’t think butter or other fats were directly linked to it. Can anyone provide me some citation for that idea?
She claims that she’s never advocated that you should go ahead and eat like that all the time, but hell if I could tell from her show. A stick of butter is not a common ingredient in tomato-based pasta sauce.
I’m not gleeful about this. Her shape reminds me of a grandma who struggled with type 2 diabetes for decades, as did my mother-in-law. It just doesn’t surprise me.
What does surprise me is that she’s known for 3 years and it’s only coming out now.
Being happy because another person has an awful disease is even tackier than Ms. Deen’s irritating persona and over the top food excesses.
There’s a very good reason for that: until now nobody was paying her to talk about it. Now she’s participating in a campaign to promote diabetes awareness (which might have the incidental effect of increasing sales of a diabetes medication made by the company that is paying her).
As far as I know, sugar/simple carbs do not cause diabetes. They are harmful to good blood sugar control for diabetics.
Type 2 diabetes is related to obesity, age, and family history, last I read up on it. Paula has carried some extra weight for as long as I can remember.
This. This woman made herself rich off of selling deep fried garbage and is now using her condition to sell drugs.
I’m not experiencing glee, but I won’t express sympathy until somebody starts paying me to do so. I think Paula herself would understand.
You can put this in the “saw it coming from a mile away” column.
Here’s the story:
My wife is a big fan of hers, and I will say that her pumpkin ooey-gooey cake is heavenly, but yeah that’s pretty much a once a year treat for me.
Anyway, a lot of the commenters on that story are also pretty upset that she’s taking this as an opportunity to shill for a drug company.
:eek: <-----Shocked
Dayum!!
[Gomer Pyle]
Surprise, surprise, surprise!
[/Gomer Pyle]
Not at all surprised, of course. Anthony Bourdain has been very vocal about Paula. And not in a good way.
if she had to under go immediate bypass, then blame the butter.
i don’t remember her using pounds of sugar the few times i saw the show.
Threads on this topic were started in Cafe Society and MPSIMS. I’ve merged them and put the combined thread in Cafe Society.
Pretty much. Also a sedentary lifestyle coupled with those things. Exercise and weight loss can actually bring down your numbers to the point where you can get off the meds, but there’s no cure. It doesn’t look like she’s tried very hard to take the pounds off.
Chefguy: Type 2 diabetic.
You have obviously never watched Two Fat Ladies.
She puts BUTTER in SPAGHETTI SAUCE? Please, tell me you’re joking. Butter does not belong in spaghetti sauce. It only belongs near it, when it’s used to make delicious, buttery garlic bread …
I remember once where she was cooking a dish for her sons, and the big deal was that there were vegetables in it. She had to hide them under cheese or pasta or something.
Meaning no offense, but she looks like a walking heart attack. If I had a celebrity death list, she’d be on it for about 2015.
I saw part of the interview, and she was sure weaseling about why she waited three years to announce her condition. She is so transparent - of course she waited until she could make money out of it.
I also loved (read: hated) the way she said Al’s name - it sounded like “Aooww”. I think there’s a post in another thread that suggests an updated Pygmalion set in the US, and I think her accent would be the perfect “before” accent. I can hear her in the second scene now:
“Professuh, no cookin’ show wull hahr me unless I kin taowk without gawglin’ in the back o’ mah throat, y’all.”
Roddy
I once saw a video of her drinking a cup of melted butter. gag If anything, her recipes kill my appetite.
(To be fair though, you don’t have to be obese to have Type 2 diabetes. My grandmother has it, and she’s probably about 100lbs soaking wet. Her diet, however, has always been terrible, and she’s 93. Of course, obesity does play a part. But don’t think that just because someone’s skinny they’re safe.)